The majority of today is going to be spent considering the awards race after the Producers Guild awarded Argo last night and the Screen Actors Guild will be handing out their awards tonight (we will be live-blogging starting around 3 PM PST by the way). This morning, the box-office gets a brief moment of our time as Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters took the #1 spot with an estimated $19 million and the Movie Godz wept.
Budgeted at $50 million, I think Paramount is happy to use Hansel & Gretel as a movie marketing tool more than anything else, taking the opportunity to earn back a few dollars while previewing four minutes of G.I. Joe: Retaliation, hoping the sequel will more than make up for the money lost on the lackluster fairy tale-turned-actioner.
The final number came in well under Laremy's predicted $27 million, but looking over the reader predictions it seems John Debono knew something Laremy didn't as his $18.6 million prediction may end up spot on once actuals are released Monday afternoon.
The film will likely fade quickly as audiences came away with a "B" CinemaScore, but who knows, maybe it will make a few dollars overseas and Paramount can wash its hands and break even after delaying it for nearly a year.
Looking at other new releases, we find Jason Statham's Parker down in fifth place with a measly $7 million, which Laremy almost nailed in his predictions, but he was doubly wrong on Movie 43, which boasted one of the largest ensemble casts ever and turned in a mere $5 million over the weekend. Parker did fine with cinemagoers, scoring a "B+" CinemaScore, but don't expect to hear much about Movie 43 ever again as that "D" CinemaScore isn't likely to get people buzzing.
Of course, with Movie 43 already scoring $8.5 million in Russia, that $6 million budget doesn't seem like such a bad investment for Relativity.
On a side note, if you take a look at the weekend's all three new releases, the most exciting stat of all is the fact you can add up their respective RottenTomatoes scores -- Movie 43 (5%), Hansel & Gretel (15%) and Parker (37%) -- and still come up with a "rotten" score of 57%. Kudos to all three, that's tough to do.
Looking at the reader predictions for the weekend's weaker new releases, Jimmy B nailed Parker's $7 million tally, while Chris Etrata was all over Movie 43's failures with a $4.8 million prediction, making it the closest on the board.
In other news, Mama scored a second place finish, dipping only 55%. Budgeted at only $15 million, the film is now over $48 million domestically and Universal should expect more internationally on the Guillermo del Toro-produced thriller. One can only wonder how much more it would make had it actually been good.
Additionally, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is lighting the foreign box-office on fire, racking up $42.9 million this weekend, up to $111.5 million internationally and $257.8 million worldwide. Inglourious Basterds finished its global run at $321.4 million, but Django is looking to topple that.
Next weekend I'm not expecting either Bullet to the Head or Warm Bodies to light the box-office on fire and personally expect Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to land with the same thud as Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Last Stand, which after one week is already out of the top ten.
The weekend top ten is directly below...
Weekend Box-Office Top Ten for January 25 - January 27, 2013
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- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
- A Paramount Pictures release
- $19.6 million
- THEATERS: 3,372 ($5,813 per theater)
- BUDGET: $50 million
- ROTTEN TOMATOES: 15%
- Mama (Universal Pictures) - $13 million ($48.8m cume)
From 2,682 theaters ($4,847 avg.) / $15 million budget / 62%
- Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia Pictures) - $9.7 million ($69.8m cume)
From 2,929 theaters ($3,312 avg.) / $40 million budget / 93%
- Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Co.) - $9.4 million ($68.9m cume)
From 2,641 theaters ($3,559 avg.) / $21 million budget / 92%
- Parker (FilmDistrict) - $7 million
From 2,224 theaters ($3,147 avg.) / 38%
- Django Unchained (The Weinstein Co.) - $4.9 million ($146.2m cume)
From 2,007 theaters ($2,441 avg.) / $100 million budget / 88%
- Movie 43 (Relativity Media) - $4.8 million
From 2,023 theaters ($2,373 avg.) / $6 million budget / 5%
- Gangster Squad (Warner Bros.) - $4.27 million ($39.7m cume)
From 37 theaters ($116,986 avg.) / $60 million budget / 32%
- Les Miserables (Universal Pictures) - $4.22 million ($137.m cume)
From 2,201 theaters ($1,917 avg.) / $61 million budget
- Broken City (20th Century Fox) - $4 million ($15.2m cume)
From 2,622 theaters ($1,526 avg.) / $35 million budget / 25%
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Warm Bodies may top next weekend
Django will easily blast past Basterds in total box office but I don't expect much but resounding thuds for Warm Bodies and Bullett to the Head actually. The Stallone one speaks for itself but the bodies trailers are dire.
Likely one of the current releases repeats on top of an overall poor weekend next weekend.
Brad you didn't mention that Silver Linings Playbook dropped only 7% this weekend. Impressive for being on week 11.
As much as I hate to say it, Warm Bodies will be no. 1 next weekend. I just hope it doesn't go beyond mid teens.
Warm Bodies will win next weekend
1.Warm Bodies - $23.7 Million
2.Hansel & Gretel - $10.9 Million
3.Bullet to the Head - $6.1 Million
February looks like a dead month. I don't see anything interesting, maybe "Identity Thief" for the heck of it.
Erm.....Die Hard 5??
Side Effects and Stoker look good. I'm a little apprehensive about Warm Bodies, but it looks like it'll at least be solid.
Good for silver Linings, a movie that started off shaky with a goof release schedule is not on par to finish around The Descendants' box office. I'm not sure if it hits $100 million, but they should all be happy.
Next weekend is Super bowl weekend as well, so I think Warm Bodies will open a little lighter than Chronicle did last year. If Parker and The Last Stand both flopped, a hard R bloody Stallone flick is set to bomb hard.